In
an e-mail from last year, a photographer reported having four airport
sources for the day, including “Harold at Delta, Leon at Baggage
service, Fred at hudson news, Lyle at Fruit and nut stand.” A former TMZ
cameraman showed me expense reports that he had submitted in 2010,
reflecting payments of forty or fifty dollars to various sources: to the
counter girl at a Beverly Hills salon, for information on Goldie Hawn;
to a valet, for Pete Sampras; to a shopkeeper, for Dwight Howard; and to
a waiter, for Hayden Christensen. “Everybody rats everybody else out,”
Simon Cardoza, a former cameraman for the site, told me. “That’s the
beauty of TMZ.” more
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
The NSA that Watches the Stars... TMZ
TMZ resembles an intelligence agency as much as a news organization, and
it has turned its domain, Los Angeles, into a city of stool pigeons.
In
an e-mail from last year, a photographer reported having four airport
sources for the day, including “Harold at Delta, Leon at Baggage
service, Fred at hudson news, Lyle at Fruit and nut stand.” A former TMZ
cameraman showed me expense reports that he had submitted in 2010,
reflecting payments of forty or fifty dollars to various sources: to the
counter girl at a Beverly Hills salon, for information on Goldie Hawn;
to a valet, for Pete Sampras; to a shopkeeper, for Dwight Howard; and to
a waiter, for Hayden Christensen. “Everybody rats everybody else out,”
Simon Cardoza, a former cameraman for the site, told me. “That’s the
beauty of TMZ.” more
In
an e-mail from last year, a photographer reported having four airport
sources for the day, including “Harold at Delta, Leon at Baggage
service, Fred at hudson news, Lyle at Fruit and nut stand.” A former TMZ
cameraman showed me expense reports that he had submitted in 2010,
reflecting payments of forty or fifty dollars to various sources: to the
counter girl at a Beverly Hills salon, for information on Goldie Hawn;
to a valet, for Pete Sampras; to a shopkeeper, for Dwight Howard; and to
a waiter, for Hayden Christensen. “Everybody rats everybody else out,”
Simon Cardoza, a former cameraman for the site, told me. “That’s the
beauty of TMZ.” more
